Senator Incitatus
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Junior Chimp
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« on: October 24, 2020, 09:27:11 PM » |
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« edited: October 24, 2020, 09:30:52 PM by RoboWop »
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Title is somewhat self-explanatory; Could Long have finished ahead in the popular or electoral vote in 1936?
Polling before Long's death had him at somewhere between 6–7M votes. Landon finished with 16.6M. It's somewhat hard to say if Long would have finished ahead of Landon's 8 electoral votes. On the one hand, he likely would have won more electoral votes than 8. His home state of Louisiana alone had 10. But he'd probably eat into Roosevelt's votes in enough places for Landon to pick some more up.
Follow-up question: Could his party (the Union Party or some other) have supplanted the Republicans as the alternative to Roosevelt's Democrats?
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